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Howard family collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1410
Overview This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and genealogical data pertaining to the Howard and Bennett family lineages. It includes many genealogical charts, tracing ancestors back to the 1700s, as well as a book on Bennett family history written by Edith Bennett Howard. There are also photographs as recent as the late 1970s and cased photographs and cabinet card photographs dating back to the mid- and late-19th century. Several maps, diplomas, and personal journals provide...
Dates: between 1850 and 1990

John Gideon Haskell papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P387
Overview

Typescript (carbon copy) of "The Haskell Family of Weathersfield, Vermont, 1787-1933, compiled by John Gideon Haskell," and typescript (transcript, carbon copy) of the "Will of Roger Haskell of Beverly, [1667], copied from the original on file in Essex County Probate Office."

Dates: between 1832 and 1907

List of settler deaths in Douglas County, Kansas

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P389
Overview

List of deaths by month. Some entries include age or year of birth, where born, and how long the pioneer lived in Douglas County, Kansas.

Dates: September 14, 1930-1931

Martha Peterson papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 953
Overview Jamestown, Kansas native Martha Peterson (1916-2006) served as Dean of Women at the University of Kansas and the University of Wisconsin, President of Barnard College, New York, and President of Beloit College, Wisconsin. Peterson, the first woman to serve on the board of ExxonMobil, also served on many other corporate boards. This collection of her papers reflects these activities, as well as her personal and family history. The collection includes professional and personal correspondence,...
Dates: 1830-2007 (bulk 1916-2006)

Mildred P. Reid Mounger papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 458
Overview

The papers of Mildred P. Reid Mounger are those of a Kansas native who, through the Capital Household Technicians and Topeka Household Technicians both of which she began, worked to better conditions for household workers.

Dates: 1904-1988

Notes on the genealogy of the Chaplyn/Chaplin and Grover families of England

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E115
Overview

This volume contains a compilation in several hands of items related to the genealogy and history of the Chaplyn or Chaplin and Grover families of England, covering the 15th or 16th through 19th centuries. George Edward Grover is associated with the volume but may not have been the compiler, merely instead used as a source.

Dates: covering the 16th-19th centuries, compiled approximately 1881-1882

Our trip West

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P712
Overview

This photocopied typescript is a 93-page account of an automobile trip to California by William L. Hastie and his wife Anna of Lawrence (Douglas County), Kansas. Hastie's account, which begins with their September 1937 departure and ends with their February 1938 return to Lawrence, includes details of visits with many family members and acquaintances along the way.

Dates: 1937; March 16, 1985

Papers of John G. Stutz

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 327
Overview

This collection reflects John G. Stutz's work with the Kansas Emergency Relief Committee during the Great Depression, as well as his involvement with the League of Kansas Municipalities, National League of Cities, and the International City Management Association. The collection also includes a variety of material from Stutz's personal life and his interest in genealogy.

Dates: 1860s-1996 (bulk 1920s-1970s)

Personal papers of Nellie Barnes

 Collection
Call Number: PP 466
Overview Nellie Barnes taught Rhetoric at the University of Kansas from 1918-1956. Her collection includes maps, stories of Kansas lore and history, student theme papers, and lyrics to folk songs. The bulk of the collection comprises personal and family papers, project manuscripts and miscellaneous research with content dating back to 1750, and alphabetical files of letters to author Mary Austin (1868-1934), who wrote about Native American affairs particularly related to tribal nations in the U.S....
Dates: 1900 - 1960

Powrie V. Doctor papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P388
Overview

Map of the Scotch Plains settlement in Republic County, Kansas, family tree showing the descendents of A. C. Doctor, and an obituary (photocopy) of Powrie Doctor's father, Alexander Chalmers Doctor.

Dates: between 1947 and 1971

Priestly family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 249
Overview

William Priestly and his wife, Ellen, settled in Lawrence, Kansas area in the early 1870s; together they had nine children. This collection contains family correspondence from 1890-1920, and some personal records, including Civil War quartermaster reports filed by William Priestly.

Dates: 1833 - 1945

Proven ancestry of John Edwin Darby and Charlotte Amelia Bremerman

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P200
Overview

Proven ancestory of John Edwin Darby and Charlotte Amelia Bremerman. A supplement to John Edwin Darby, his descendants, and known ancestors. Manhattan, Kansas, 1967.

Dates: 1967

Roark family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1539
Overview

This collection contains correspondence, vital records and other genealogical data, census reports, and county and family histories pertaining to the family of Doris (Neal) Roark. The collection chiefly consists of genealogical records and research material on ancestors in the Roark family line and other family branches dating back to the late 18th century.

Dates: 1790-2013 (bulk 1993-2013)

Robinson-Clapp family archives

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 578
Overview The Robinsons were a prominent Kansas City, Missouri family. Betty Clapp Robinson collected her family papers and materials relating to her interest in gardening. The collection includes photographs and scrapbooks from the 1890s to 1998. Some of the papers relate to the Robinson family endeavors in the military and medical fields from the 1890s-1910s; other materials relate to family members' involvement with the University of Kansas, genealogical information and research, and the history...
Dates: 1861 - 2020

Samuel Hunt Davis autobiography

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P16
Overview

Notebook containing an autobiography, dated July 2, 1931, with a biographical sketch of Homer Winslow Davis, an autobiographical sketch of Emma Stubbs Davis, and a history of the Hesper monthly meeting dating from circa 1955. Clippings (including obituaries), annotated map of New Orleans and vicinity, a family genealogy, and two pieces of correspondence accompany manuscript.

Dates: July 2, 1931; approximately 1955

"These Were People of Mercy" Stoner family genealogy

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS D302
Overview

Family genealogy starting from the eight paternal grandparents of Kenneth Lee Stoner and his wife, Ruth Ann Shahan. Volume includes an introduction and eight chapters, one for each grandparent. The families immigrated to the United States from Switzerland, England, Ireland, and Denmark in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

Dates: December 2019

What we've found about the Archibalds

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS P193
Overview

Includes biography of John Christie Archibald who was among the first party of settlers to arrive in Lawrence.

Dates: 1968

Zion Lutheran Church records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1133
Overview These historical records of the Zion Lutheran Church of rural Clyde, Kansas date from 1874, when the church was formally organized at Brantford, Kansas by its community of Swedish immigrants. Records include the church's 1874 constitution and minutes of meetings through 1947. Also included is the church's earliest register of members, identifying dates of birth, baptism, confirmation, immigration, marriage, and deaths through 1965. The records are in Swedish through 1924, and are afterward...
Dates: 1874 - 1965

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Eberhart, Joseph, 1800-1882 1
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